Author: Joe Jackson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142996913X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.
Atlantic Fever
Author: Joe Jackson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142996913X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142996913X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.
Atlantic Fever
Author: Edward Jablonski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Includes material on Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charles Levine, and Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Includes material on Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charles Levine, and Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan.
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States
Author: United States. Marine Hospital Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the fiscal year ... 1876-77
Medical and surgical history of the civil war
Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the fiscal year ... 1874
Report of the Federal Security Agency: Public Health Service
Author: United States. Public Health Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865)
Annual report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States
Author: United States Marine Hospital Service Supervising Surgeon General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description